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by Paul on 07/09/09 at 05:33 PM ET
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I get hundreds of emails a week, some are great, some are not so great and some are… Well, you tell me.
I was asked my opinion on this, but I can’t give an opinion since I don’t understand it!
We’d like to offer you the new rule of point estimation for hockey matches. The point estimation should be made according to the results and the matches with different results should be estimated in different way. The teams should be added the premium percent of point for thrown pucks by decreasing arithmetical progression.
In case of 2 points estimation system the match ended in 1 puck difference will be estimated ordinary by 2 and 0 point. The 2nd and next pucks differences should be estimated by the percent: the 2nd puck difference _ by 30% of point, the 3rd – by 25% of point, the 4th – by 20% of point, the 5th – by 15% of point, the 6th – by 10% of point, the 7th and next pucks – by 5-5%. The winners should be added these percent and the losers should be taken out them and they move into minus.
According to these rules the points should be conferred on the winners and the losers in following way:
For 1 puck difference win – 2 and 0 points;
For 2 puck difference – 2,30 and -0,30 points;
For 3 puck difference – 2,55 and -0,55 points;
For 4 puck difference – 2,75 and -0,75 points;
For 5 puck difference – 2,90 and -0,90 points;
For 6 puck difference – 3,0 and -1,0 points;
For 7 puck difference _ 3,05 and -1,05 points.
For every next difference 5-5% of point will be added and taken out to the teams.
Addition of points may be made according to different percent: 25%, 20%, 15%, 10%, 5% or 20%, 20%, 15%, 15%, 10%, 10%, 5%.
The premium percent can be regulated and optimized in various ways _ increased or reduced and brought to the desirable variable.
For the victory we may add 3 points, but I think it’s more suitable to add 2 points.
The overtime is usually estimated with 2 and 1, or 1,5 and 0,5 points.
In case of such estimation it is not difficult to sum up the points – in the points graph the minus and plus points will be gathered together and the fraction sign will be added to the point figure.
Matches will be estimated by the premium percent only during regular championship, playoffs will be performed as usual.
Such way of estimation determines more correctly the correlation of forces between the two competitive teams during a concrete match and the places in the standings before playoff.
According to these rules the struggle between the teams will be going on not only for win but for each puck till the end of the play and the meetings will be much sharper
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Prerequisite for NHL Officials, Commentators, and fans: PhD in Mathematics.
Posted by Itlan on 07/09/09 at 05:55 PM ET
I am writing you to inform that I have recently become entrusted with one giant silver cup, which was passed on to me when my father was passed away. Please give your checking account information so I may wire cup into your possession. I await eagerly your reply.
Posted by Entitynein on 07/09/09 at 05:57 PM ET
I’d like to keep goal differential as only a tiebreaker, thank you. However, I would support a move to a 3-2-1 point system where teams get 3 for a regulation win, 2 for an OT win and 1 for an OT loss.
Posted by J.J. from Kansas on 07/09/09 at 05:58 PM ET
It’s understandable, but this system places too much emphasis on goals scored. A team could conceivably score a ton of goals, but lose more games than another team. I guess it’s no different than the extra point given for winning a shootout, but I think it’s way too complicated to even be usable. Next is a BCS computer for playoff teams??
Posted by Itlan on 07/09/09 at 05:59 PM ET
This must have come from the American Recovery Reinvestment Act (Stimulus Package)
Posted by Al from Anaheim on 07/09/09 at 06:08 PM ET
How many columns are needed in the standing ? LOL, it’s crazy! Though I do agree with J.J. on the 1-2-3 point system. I think it’s much more fair then the current point system.
Posted by Lindas1st on 07/09/09 at 06:11 PM ET
I’d like to keep goal differential as only a tiebreaker, thank you. However, I would support a move to a 3-2-1 point system where teams get 3 for a regulation win, 2 for an OT win and 1 for an OT loss.
Posted by J.J. from Kansas on 07/09/09 at 06:58 PM ET
From the people that brought you “Jumping rope without a jump rope” how about the 4-3-2-1 point system: 4 points for a regulation win, 3 points for an OT win, 2 points for an OT loss, and 1 point for a regulation loss…because darn it, you tried your best! We could call this the “Colorado” clause. Seriously though. Good luck figuring that out everybody.
Posted by Animal Drew from A Nightmare on Helm Street on 07/09/09 at 06:16 PM ET
Wow how delightfully schizophrenic!
Posted by Hippy Dave from Portland by way of Detroit on 07/09/09 at 06:17 PM ET
I wasn’t kidding by the way…
http://sportsmedianews.com/04/real-sports-returns-april-14-on-hbo/
(sorry for the semi-hijack, Paul)
Posted by Animal Drew from A Nightmare on Helm Street on 07/09/09 at 06:22 PM ET
It reads like it was translated from Russian to English by someone who only spoke Swahili. 
Go with three points up for grabs in every game, and I think the ends of close games will be more exciting because there will be a difference between a regulation win and an overtime win. Or just accept that sometimes ties happen and go back to W-L-T columns and call it good.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 07/09/09 at 06:25 PM ET
Paul - you should tell TPSH to stop emailing you.
Just sayin’.
Posted by TeamDub from The gratch. on 07/09/09 at 07:03 PM ET
My God. Talk about ways to over complicate a simple game. I’m an equity trader. I deal with spreadsheets and numbers all day..and reading this hurt my brain. If someone actually made it this difficult to determine the outcome of a hockey game or any sport actually, I don’t know what I’d do but it would be very, very bad.
Posted by UMFan from Colorado on 07/09/09 at 08:11 PM ET
I’m a soccer fan, so to me the best set of points is the 3 (win) 1 (tie) 0 (loss).
Since soccer don’t have overtime on regular season games, the “2 points” is unused; in hockey it could reward the OT/SO win, with the “1 point” rewarding the OT/SO loss.
Posted by Guilherme from Brazil on 07/09/09 at 08:26 PM ET
Came for something interesting. Head just hurts, but I get what he’s saying and agree it’s a bit too complicated to be fan-friendly. Returning to relative obscurity.
Posted by MarkK from Maryland on 07/09/09 at 09:09 PM ET
I think I kind of get what this person is saying, if that makes any sense at all! However, after reading that it kind of sucked the life out of me and sucked all that is good and enjoyable about hockey out of the sport!
Posted by Mac from Canada on 07/10/09 at 07:55 AM ET
I’m against it. There’s no need to complicate a simple game: he who has the most goals at the end of the match wins - not on some technicality. From what I’ve read, it wants the goal-differential to mean something. If team A beats team B by one goal, team A would get two points for the win while team B gets zero points and zero loss of percentage points.
Keeping the trend it proposes, if team A beats team B by two goals, team A gets two points for the win while team B not only gets zero points, team B also is penalized by subtraction from their overall records and goal-differences by the proposed percentage losses and would go into the negative as stated above: The winners should be added these percent and the losers should be taken out them and they move into minus.
At least, that’s what I’m interpreting. It seems like it wants to make the season actually mean something towards meaning the President’s Cup. It’s stupid because the real goal of a really simple game is winning the Stanley Cup outright, fair and square on the ice. Not in the standings.
Posted by SYF from a "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp" on 07/10/09 at 12:58 PM ET
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